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Lynn Hadaway has 50 years of experience in infusion nursing. Her clinical experience comes from infusion therapy teams in multiple acute care settings. She is president of Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc., an education and consulting company started in 1996. She holds two national certifications—infusion nursing from the Infusion Nurses Certification Corporation and nursing professional development from the American Nurses Credentialing Corporations—as well as a master’s in education from the University of Georgia. She has authored more than 75 published articles and 8 textbook chapters on infusion therapy and vascular access and was the clinical editor for Infusion Therapy Made Incredibly Easy. She served on the Infusion Nurses Society Standards of Practice committees to revise the 2006, 2011, 2016, and 2021 Standards of Practice, and served on the committees to revise the 2014 and 2022 Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Compendium (SHEA) CLABSI chapter and the 2015 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) CLABSI Implementation Guide.

Barb Nickel is a clinical nurse specialist at a health care center in Nebraska. She is responsible for staff development, competency assessment, and process improvement to optimize outcomes in multiple areas of clinical practice, including critical care, infusion therapy, sepsis, and new graduate transition to practice. Barb has presented nationally on infusion-related topics, is a coauthor of the 2021 Infusion Nurses Society Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, is the chair of the INS Standard of Practice Committee for the 2024, 9th edition of the Standards, and has authored several publications on infusion therapy in the critical care setting. She also serves as faculty in a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program, in areas of critical care and chronic illness.

Dr. Amanda Ullman is the inaugural professor and chair in pediatric nursing, conjoint between the University of Queensland and Children's Health Queensland, and a 2021-2022 Fulbright Future Scholar. She believes that children should be able to receive medical treatment in hospitals without harm, and her research focuses on improving the most common invasive procedure in pediatrics—the insertion of an intravenous (IV) catheter. This research has changed practice, reducing infection and pain and promoting efficient health care for children internationally, and has received considerable investments by the National Health and Medical Research Council as well as highly-competitive awards, more than 130 research articles, and two mHealth apps. In February 2022, according to ExpertScape, Dr. Ullman ranks as the top global expert in central venous catheters.

Wendy H. Vogel, MSN, FNP, AOCNP®, is an oncology nurse practitioner from Kingsport, Tennessee. She received her BS in nursing at Tennessee Technological University and her MS in nursing in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at East Tennessee State University. Ms. Vogel is a board-certified advanced oncology certified nurse practitioner through the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation and a certified family nurse practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

As well as being the executive director and a founding board member of the Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology and Oncology (APSHO), Ms. Vogel is an associate editor of the Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology (JADPRO) and has published in several professional journals and texts. She received the 2012 ONS Mary Nowotny Excellence in Cancer Nursing Education Award as well as the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award for coediting the Advanced Oncology Nursing Certification Review and Resource Manual: Instructor’s Resource. She has lectured nationally and internationally on oncologic topics and the role of the advanced practitioner.